The body tries to wall off the fatty plaques with fibrous scar tissue, but inflamed plaques can produce enzymes that weaken the scar tissue.

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The stent, a metal-mesh tube, keeps the artery from closing up again after the balloon is removed, but scar tissue can form over the metal, re-blocking the artery.

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In the end, what was amazing about the images was not the scar but her expression terrified, defiant, vulnerable, her face in a dance of emotion, frame by frame.

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You read a lot of the stories, and maybe your heart broke enough to scar over, but you gained the perspective to resume some kind of normality.

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But sometimes scar tissue formed inside the stent, causing artery to close up again-leading to a repeat procedure or to heart bypass surgery.

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Ms Leggatt told the jury the wounds had healed but she had a large scar on her stomach where she was operated on and scarring on her leg.

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It's close to the area where he had season-ending surgery last June to remove scar tissue but is unrelated to that injury, Dugger said.

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It's close to the area where he had season-ending surgery last June to remove scar tissues but is unrelated to that injury, Dugger said.

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